Zhu Jie's face turned pale, and he shouted: "Okay, did I say that I won't call the shots for you?" Deliver the decree, return to the palace immediately, and I will deal with this matter immediately! Come on, prepare a sedan chair for Brother Ning Yu, and the rest of the soldiers will be repaired on the spot, and we will go back to the palace! ”

Li Dingguo knelt on the ground for more than a day and a night, even if it was a steel-cast iron body, it could no longer support it, not to mention at least, it was very difficult to stand, and he could only carry it back to the palace, although Zhu Jie's state was not good, but there was no problem with riding a horse.

Back in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Jie drank a bowl of ginseng soup sent by the imperial doctor, and then said: "Okay, Bai Gu, tell me about the current situation!" ”

Sun Chuanting's face turned red, and he said to Zhu Jie: "Your Majesty, the situation is not optimistic, all parts of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Tianwei Army, the soldiers of the four towns of Nanjing are concentrated in the north and south, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Huguang and other provinces, the situation of deducting and greedy for the pension of the soldiers of the Tianwei Army and the fields is very serious, as serious as Henan, some soldiers have not even received a pension of one or two silver, as for the land issued by the imperial court, it has also been divided and occupied by local officials, such as the retired soldiers of the Wei Army today because they have not received the pension, Nearly 3,000 soldiers have died without medical treatment for their injuries, and the families of the fallen soldiers are small, and they have been displaced because they have no economic resources, except for the hinterland of Gyeonggi and Jiangnan Province, the matter of greed for mercy among officials in other places has been extremely serious, and most of the three or four million taels of silver and tens of thousands of hectares of land allocated by the imperial court for this purpose have gone into the pockets of local officials......

"How can it be!"

Zhu Jie's face was extremely ugly, and he said viciously: "It seems that I am still too merciful to these officials, and I dare to stuff any silver into my pocket!" Forcing me to go on a killing spree again! ”

"The most serious thing is the soldiers of the fourth town, one is that the combat area of the soldiers of the fourth town is concentrated in the area of Henan and Shaanxi, and the other is that the soldiers of the fourth town are from the Great Western Army after all, and they have also received the rejection of the local officials and people, of which more than one-third of the soldiers are the soldiers of the fourth town, and even some local governments have put some of the retired soldiers of the fourth town into prisons in order to suppress the development of the situation......"

Xu Yifan on the side said astringently, "There is also Mu Feng back, who was originally reprimanded by the minister, and was about to return to Mobei, but he happened to meet the soldiers of the fourth town, and returned to the capital halfway to investigate the matter." As a result, the situation in Nanjing Right Town, Fangcaifan County, is not optimistic. When he was defending Zhending Mansion, one of his pro-soldiers was seriously injured, one leg was cut off, and he had to withdraw from the right town of Nanjing and return to his hometown to recuperate. Mu Feng got the news, where to do it, at that time to take the soldiers of the second town to the south, in order to avoid the expansion of the situation, the minister had to lock Mu Feng in the first town of the camp, sent the first town of the pro-army to guard day and night, now Mu Feng is already furious, has been the minister's ancestors eighteen generations do not know how many times, even cut the robe and cut off the righteousness of the thing has been done......"

Zhu Jie's heart trembled suddenly when he heard this, no wonder Li Dingguo carried the coffin into Beijing, no wonder Qin Mufeng was furious, these officials were already crazy, shameless, and it was not a pity to die!

Bang!

Zhu Jie slammed the tea bowl in his hand against the wall, his eyes spewing anger, like gunpowder that could be ignited at any time!

"Your Majesty, the minister has your trust, he is not effective in governing the country, and he deserves death, so I implore the emperor to remove the ministers from their positions and hand them over to the judicial office!"

As Sun Chuanting spoke, he took off his black gauze hat, put it on the ground, and knelt on the ground.

There is no way, things have come to this point, someone has to come out to be responsible, and the emperor can't let the emperor offend himself, as the first and auxiliary minister, he has no shirk responsibility!

Zhu Jie took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Bai Gu, the matter of punishment, let's go back and talk about it, first solve the problem in front of me and then talk about other things, I have also neglected this matter, it is not too late to make amends, pass on the decree!" ”

The eunuch on the side was ready.

"Gao Jie, immediately dispatch the personnel of the Intelligence Department, according to the intelligence records, all the corrupt officials will be dismissed from their posts and awaiting participation! Local officials, regardless of their official positions or titles, will be sentenced to death if they are greedy for more than 5,000 taels; Whoever is greedy for more than 3,000 Momo is dismissed from his post and exiled 5,000 miles into the north of the desert as slaves; Those who are greedy for ink for more than 1,000 taels and exiled for 3,000 miles into Yungui are lowly people, mining mines, never using them, and those who are greedy for ink for less than 1,000 taels will be dismissed from their posts and served as people; Whoever embezzles more than 500 taels of silver shall have his income recovered, demoted to an official position and retained for three years. Those who insult the soldiers of the fourth town will be exiled for three thousand miles! ”

Zhu Jie paused, and then said: "The fourth town of the Tianwei Army is the Great Ming Pillar Stone, the strong army of the country, no one is allowed to slander and slander, and the fourth town of the Tianwei Army is given the Jingzhong Banner in recognition of its merits, and Li Dingguo will give it the title of first-class marquis!" The dead and seriously injured soldiers in various places will be re-allocated for bereavement benefits, and two percent will be allocated for bereavement on top of the original bereavement pensions! Yifan, immediately from the first town, the second town, and the fifth town of the Tianwei Army, set up patrol teams, and sent them to various places, I gave them the power of life and death, but anyone who is a traitor can be directly killed, so as to set an example! ”

In order to be able to distribute the bereavement pension in full, Zhu Jie was ruthless this time, and let Tianwei Jun supervise it, now, look at that local official, he still dares to stretch out his hand indiscriminately!

"Your Ministers obey!"

Above the court, all the people are nervous, this time, I am afraid that the emperor is going to kill again, and no one can stop the killing! Think about the past few years, from the encirclement and suppression of Li Zicheng to the encirclement and suppression of Zhang Xianzhong, to the fight against the Manchurian Eight Banners, and then to the extermination of Mobei, the Tianwei Army will fight almost every battle, win every battle, and save the Ming Dynasty with blood and life, that is the emperor's disciples, the most stable cornerstone of the Ming Dynasty, and now it is treated like this, once the dissatisfaction and resentment accumulate to the limit and are detonated, it will be a huge disaster for the Ming Dynasty!

"Li Yan, draft the edict of the guilty, I want to announce it to the world, to the battlefield of a hundred battles, and to make amends for the bloody and sweaty soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Your Majesty, this, this can't be done......"

Li Yan on the side was shocked, the edict of guilt, this is not a joke, once the dignified emperor issues the edict of guilt, it will cause chaos in the government and the opposition, and the situation will be even more difficult to clean up!

Zhu Jie waved his hand and replied: "Okay, there is nothing to be done, I have a loss to the soldiers, so I naturally have to apologize, is the face of the Ninety-Five Honored so important?" The others stayed in the court to discuss remedies, Yifan, let's go, go to the first town to see the shepherd! ”

(End of chapter)